handy-dandyn.adv.int.

Brit.

/ˌhandɪˈdandi/, U.S.

/ˌhændiˈdændi/

Forms:

α. Middle English handi-dandi, Middle English– handy-dandy, 1500s handi-dandy, 1500s–1600s handie-dandie.

β. 1600s– handy-pandy, 1800s handy-spandy, 1800s– handy-bandy (English regional (Cheshire)).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: hand n.

Etymology: Reduplication (with variation of the initial consonant and suffixation: compare -y suffix⁶) of hand n. In β. forms showing (chiefly humorous) alteration of the consonant at the beginning of the second element. With the form handy-spandy at β. forms, perhaps compare the nursery rhyme Handy spandy, Jack-a-Dandy (1823 or earlier; also Handy, spandy, Jack-o'-dandy).

A. n.

†1. A covert bribe or gift, conveyed secretly in or as though in a closed hand. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe

gift1382

handy-dandyc1390

pricec1400

bud1436

bribe?a1439

golden (also silver) keyc1450

fee1549

golden shower1589

oil of angels1592

sugar-plum1608

bribera1616

palm oil1625

greasinga1661

sop1665

sweetbreada1670

vail1687

douceur1739

sweetener1741

bonus1759

buckshee1773

smear-gelt1785

grease1823

boodle?1856

soap1860

ice1887

palm-grease1897

poultice1902

fix1929

dropsy1930

pay-off1930

drop1931

oil1935

squeeze-pidgin1946

sling1948

bung1958

back-hander1960

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. l. 61 Wro[n]g þenne vppon Wisdom wepte to helpe, Him for his handidandi Rediliche he payede [c1400 Laud 581 B. iv. l. 75 Thanne wowed wronge wisdome ful ȝerne, To make his pees with his pens handi-dandi payed; c1400 Huntington HM 137 C. v. l. 68 On men of lawe wrong lokede and largelich hem profrede, And for to haue of here help handy-dandy payede.]

a. A children's game in which a small object is passed between the hands by one of the players, and, the hands being suddenly closed, the other player is required to guess in which hand the object remains, sometimes with the reward for a correct guess of keeping it. Now historical.The use in sense A. 1 probably implies that this game was known before 1400.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > games played with fingers

handy-dandy1575

nievie-nievie-nick-nackc1585

wiggle-waggle1825

pat-a-cake1838

patty-cake1889

janken1894

α.

1575 tr. J. D'Albin de Valsergues Notable Disc. xxiv. f. 56^v Answer thus still, and ye shalbe sure, that ye shall not be ouertaken: for it is as good as to playe Handie dandie.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 297/2 s.v. Arteres, the play called handie dandie.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bazzichiare, to shake between two hands, to play handy-dandy.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 73 A little yong child playing at handie dandie happely..to make choise of that hand, wherein the pin or the point is placed.

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 20 in A. Pope Wks. II Handy-dandy is mention'd by Aristotle, Plato, and Aristophanes.

1763 St. James's Chron. 3 May 2/2 To shew, like Handy-dandy,..Now here, now there, with quick Progression, How smartly you can make Digression.

1838 Actors by Daylight 28 Apr. 72/1 I discovered the proprietor playing at ‘handy dandy’ with a little urchin.

1887 ‘M. Field’ Canute the Great ii. ii. 58 Ho, his pride! At handy-dandy He cares not to be first.

1916 Christian Reg. (Boston) 9 Mar. 230/1 ‘Handy dandy’ may not sound quite familiar to us, but ‘Button, button, who's got the button?’ is only its modern name.

1994 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 10 Sept. d8 Four hundred years ago, kids in England were playing a game they called ‘handy-dandy’.

β. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. ii. 112 I learned to play at Cock-All, at Handy-Pandy, and at Nine-holes [Sp. à la taba, al palmo y al hoyuelo].1873 Our Young Folks Nov. 686 They played ‘Handy Spandy’, and ‘Ugly Mug’..until they were thoroughly tired.1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Handy-Bandy, the name of a game.1964 K. M. Briggs in A. Nicoll Shakespeare in His Own Age (1966) xii. 176 This [sc. ‘handy-dandy’ in King Lear] was familiar to most of us in childhood as ‘Handy-pandy, which hand will you have?’.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts. to play (at) handy-dandy: to act secretively or frivolously; (also) to make frequent changes or alterations.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play finger game

to play (at) handy-dandy1579

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 319/2 Yet these mates will come hither and play handidandy.

c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 2 Master Cartwright would playe at handie dandie with vs, and yet not giue vs that hand which we doe choose.

1683 W. Williams Answer Mr. Hunt's Postscript 20 All the Arts and Acts of Parliament afterwards, which..played handy-dandy with the Crown.

1702 Observator 4 July Frequent Dissolutions of Parliament have always been esteemed prejudicial to the People; for when Kings play at Handy dandy with Parliaments, they design to play a Game without them.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 355 You cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your Majesty! say his new Ministers.

1903 F. Converse Long Will ii. i. 138 Shall a lay-brother of Malvern stoop to play handy-dandy for favours?

1947 M. Sandoz Tom-walker 362 My wife played handy-pandy with the chairborne while I was sweating it out between decks in the Pacific.

1994 W. S. Blanchard in P. C. Herman Rethinking Henrician Era 129 Skelton..found a means, later in his career, of playing handy-dandy with several voices.

3. Exchange of one position or thing for another, esp. in a rapid or continuous manner.

ΚΠ

1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 110 But is not heere olde handy pandy, when sentences shall be tossed from one place to another, without the Authors aduise?

1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself vi. 166 There followed a sort of demoralizing ‘handy-pandy’ of alternate surrenders complicated by exchange of Army tobacco for Boer brandy which was bad for both sides.

1976 L. Salingar Shakespeare & Trad. of Comedy (new ed.) vi. 308 The handy-pandy of comic mistakes of identity.

1991 D. Eilon Factions' Fictions 139 The handy-dandy of bathos is a domestic miracle that collapses form back into matter efficiently and reliably.

B. adv.

With (rapid) alternation of place, position, status, etc.; alternately, in turn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb]

changeablyc1384

alternately1432

interchangeably1483

handy-dandya1529

time about1537

by course1548

at (by) intervals1588

alternatively1591

reciprocally1603

by reprises1607

alternally1627

alterably1635

altern1667

alternate1715

by vicissitudes1749

alternatingly1845

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v Donatus, be dryven out of scole Prisians hed broken, now handy dandy And inter didascolos, is rekened for a fole.

1679 R. L'Estrange Answer to Appeal from Country to City 20 These people..can set Governors and Subjects handy-dandy to Box one another like Punchinello's Puppets, when they please.

1952 K. A. Porter Let. 11 Aug. (1990) vii. 435 Remember when you and Glenway carried me handy-pandy up the stairs for the Figaro lunch?

1991 H. Felperin in F. Barker et al. Uses of Hist. 84 It is hardly surprising to find textual and contextual elements changing places handy-dandy with barely a trace.

C. int.

[After the opening words of any of a number of rhymes used in playing handy dandy.] Used in offering a choice, usually implying that the options are easy to confuse, or so similar that it makes no difference which is chosen.In later use frequently echoing quot. 1608.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > choose which you please

handy-dandy1598

1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. B4 Why loe heere we are both, I am in this hand, and hee is in that handy dandy prickly prandy, which hand will you haue.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 148 Harke in thy eare handy, dandy, which is the theefe, which is the Iustice.

1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 51 The expression is so excellent in either sense that Handy Dandy, 'tis no matter which you choose.

1783 Public Advertiser 15 Jan. Handy Pandy, which is the Flesh, and which is the Spirit?

1847 C. Swain Dramatic Chapters xii. 94 The grave, the gay, the trivial and profound, Are handy-pandy which is which?

1886 J. J. Aubertin Six Months in Cape Colony & Natal vii. 159 Handy-dandy, handy-dandy, which is the savage and which is the civilized?

1966 New Statesman 15 Apr. 539/3 Handy-dandy, which is the Underground Man and which is the complacent bourgeois?

2009 C. Murray in E. Jordan Theatre Stuff (new ed.) 218 Change places and, handy dandy, which is the sacristan, which is the priest?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	handy-dandy
释义	handy-dandyn.adv.int. Brit. /ˌhandɪˈdandi/, U.S. /ˌhændiˈdændi/ Forms: α. Middle English handi-dandi, Middle English– handy-dandy, 1500s handi-dandy, 1500s–1600s handie-dandie. β. 1600s– handy-pandy, 1800s handy-spandy, 1800s– handy-bandy (English regional (Cheshire)). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: hand n. Etymology: Reduplication (with variation of the initial consonant and suffixation: compare -y suffix⁶) of hand n. In β. forms showing (chiefly humorous) alteration of the consonant at the beginning of the second element. With the form handy-spandy at β. forms, perhaps compare the nursery rhyme Handy spandy, Jack-a-Dandy (1823 or earlier; also Handy, spandy, Jack-o'-dandy). A. n. †1. A covert bribe or gift, conveyed secretly in or as though in a closed hand. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [noun] > bribe gift1382 handy-dandyc1390 pricec1400 bud1436 bribe?a1439 golden (also silver) keyc1450 fee1549 golden shower1589 oil of angels1592 sugar-plum1608 bribera1616 palm oil1625 greasinga1661 sop1665 sweetbreada1670 vail1687 douceur1739 sweetener1741 bonus1759 buckshee1773 smear-gelt1785 grease1823 boodle?1856 soap1860 ice1887 palm-grease1897 poultice1902 fix1929 dropsy1930 pay-off1930 drop1931 oil1935 squeeze-pidgin1946 sling1948 bung1958 back-hander1960 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. l. 61 Wro[n]g þenne vppon Wisdom wepte to helpe, Him for his handidandi Rediliche he payede [c1400 Laud 581 B. iv. l. 75 Thanne wowed wronge wisdome ful ȝerne, To make his pees with his pens handi-dandi payed; c1400 Huntington HM 137 C. v. l. 68 On men of lawe wrong lokede and largelich hem profrede, And for to haue of here help handy-dandy payede.] 2. a. A children's game in which a small object is passed between the hands by one of the players, and, the hands being suddenly closed, the other player is required to guess in which hand the object remains, sometimes with the reward for a correct guess of keeping it. Now historical.The use in sense A. 1 probably implies that this game was known before 1400. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > games played with fingers handy-dandy1575 nievie-nievie-nick-nackc1585 wiggle-waggle1825 pat-a-cake1838 patty-cake1889 janken1894 α. 1575 tr. J. D'Albin de Valsergues Notable Disc. xxiv. f. 56^v Answer thus still, and ye shalbe sure, that ye shall not be ouertaken: for it is as good as to playe Handie dandie. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 297/2 s.v. Arteres, the play called handie dandie. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bazzichiare, to shake between two hands, to play handy-dandy. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 73 A little yong child playing at handie dandie happely..to make choise of that hand, wherein the pin or the point is placed. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 20 in A. Pope Wks. II Handy-dandy is mention'd by Aristotle, Plato, and Aristophanes. 1763 St. James's Chron. 3 May 2/2 To shew, like Handy-dandy,..Now here, now there, with quick Progression, How smartly you can make Digression. 1838 Actors by Daylight 28 Apr. 72/1 I discovered the proprietor playing at ‘handy dandy’ with a little urchin. 1887 ‘M. Field’ Canute the Great ii. ii. 58 Ho, his pride! At handy-dandy He cares not to be first. 1916 Christian Reg. (Boston) 9 Mar. 230/1 ‘Handy dandy’ may not sound quite familiar to us, but ‘Button, button, who's got the button?’ is only its modern name. 1994 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 10 Sept. d8 Four hundred years ago, kids in England were playing a game they called ‘handy-dandy’. β. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. ii. 112 I learned to play at Cock-All, at Handy-Pandy, and at Nine-holes [Sp. à la taba, al palmo y al hoyuelo].1873 Our Young Folks Nov. 686 They played ‘Handy Spandy’, and ‘Ugly Mug’..until they were thoroughly tired.1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Handy-Bandy, the name of a game.1964 K. M. Briggs in A. Nicoll Shakespeare in His Own Age (1966) xii. 176 This [sc. ‘handy-dandy’ in King Lear] was familiar to most of us in childhood as ‘Handy-pandy, which hand will you have?’. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. to play (at) handy-dandy: to act secretively or frivolously; (also) to make frequent changes or alterations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play finger game to play (at) handy-dandy1579 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 319/2 Yet these mates will come hither and play handidandy. c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 2 Master Cartwright would playe at handie dandie with vs, and yet not giue vs that hand which we doe choose. 1683 W. Williams Answer Mr. Hunt's Postscript 20 All the Arts and Acts of Parliament afterwards, which..played handy-dandy with the Crown. 1702 Observator 4 July Frequent Dissolutions of Parliament have always been esteemed prejudicial to the People; for when Kings play at Handy dandy with Parliaments, they design to play a Game without them. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 355 You cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your Majesty! say his new Ministers. 1903 F. Converse Long Will ii. i. 138 Shall a lay-brother of Malvern stoop to play handy-dandy for favours? 1947 M. Sandoz Tom-walker 362 My wife played handy-pandy with the chairborne while I was sweating it out between decks in the Pacific. 1994 W. S. Blanchard in P. C. Herman Rethinking Henrician Era 129 Skelton..found a means, later in his career, of playing handy-dandy with several voices. 3. Exchange of one position or thing for another, esp. in a rapid or continuous manner. ΚΠ 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iii. 110 But is not heere olde handy pandy, when sentences shall be tossed from one place to another, without the Authors aduise? 1937 R. Kipling Something of Myself vi. 166 There followed a sort of demoralizing ‘handy-pandy’ of alternate surrenders complicated by exchange of Army tobacco for Boer brandy which was bad for both sides. 1976 L. Salingar Shakespeare & Trad. of Comedy (new ed.) vi. 308 The handy-pandy of comic mistakes of identity. 1991 D. Eilon Factions' Fictions 139 The handy-dandy of bathos is a domestic miracle that collapses form back into matter efficiently and reliably. B. adv. With (rapid) alternation of place, position, status, etc.; alternately, in turn. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > alternation > [adverb] changeablyc1384 alternately1432 interchangeably1483 handy-dandya1529 time about1537 by course1548 at (by) intervals1588 alternatively1591 reciprocally1603 by reprises1607 alternally1627 alterably1635 altern1667 alternate1715 by vicissitudes1749 alternatingly1845 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v Donatus, be dryven out of scole Prisians hed broken, now handy dandy And inter didascolos, is rekened for a fole. 1679 R. L'Estrange Answer to Appeal from Country to City 20 These people..can set Governors and Subjects handy-dandy to Box one another like Punchinello's Puppets, when they please. 1952 K. A. Porter Let. 11 Aug. (1990) vii. 435 Remember when you and Glenway carried me handy-pandy up the stairs for the Figaro lunch? 1991 H. Felperin in F. Barker et al. Uses of Hist. 84 It is hardly surprising to find textual and contextual elements changing places handy-dandy with barely a trace. C. int. [After the opening words of any of a number of rhymes used in playing handy dandy.] Used in offering a choice, usually implying that the options are easy to confuse, or so similar that it makes no difference which is chosen.In later use frequently echoing quot. 1608. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choice [phrase] > choose which you please handy-dandy1598 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. B4 Why loe heere we are both, I am in this hand, and hee is in that handy dandy prickly prandy, which hand will you haue. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 148 Harke in thy eare handy, dandy, which is the theefe, which is the Iustice. View more context for this quotation 1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 51 The expression is so excellent in either sense that Handy Dandy, 'tis no matter which you choose. 1783 Public Advertiser 15 Jan. Handy Pandy, which is the Flesh, and which is the Spirit? 1847 C. Swain Dramatic Chapters xii. 94 The grave, the gay, the trivial and profound, Are handy-pandy which is which? 1886 J. J. Aubertin Six Months in Cape Colony & Natal vii. 159 Handy-dandy, handy-dandy, which is the savage and which is the civilized? 1966 New Statesman 15 Apr. 539/3 Handy-dandy, which is the Underground Man and which is the complacent bourgeois? 2009 C. Murray in E. Jordan Theatre Stuff (new ed.) 218 Change places and, handy dandy, which is the sacristan, which is the priest? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). handy-dandyadj. Brit. /ˌhandɪˈdandi/, U.S. /ˌhændiˈdændi/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: handy adj., dandy adj. Etymology: Either reduplication (with variation of initial consonant) of handy adj., perhaps influenced by dandy adj., or < handy adj. + dandy adj., to form a rhyming compound. colloquial (originally U.S.). Used for emphasis: especially handy or useful; wonderfully convenient. Cf. handy adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [adjective] > very valuable1694 handy-dandy1907 1907 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 May 7/4 (advt.) Wanted... Men and women demonstrators, streetmen, for the new handy-dandy steel concave fruit paring knife. 1934 Pop. Mech. Mag. June (Advertising section) 27/3 (advt.) ‘Handy-Dandy’ book hanger. Patent pending. Small article; big demand. 1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 80/2 There's the ‘mode switch’. This handy-dandy five- or six-position switch lets you listen to the left channel only, the right channel only, [etc.]. 1996 SFX May 89/4 Another handy-dandy reference book, a companion volume to the recently published Essential Guide to Characters. 2009 T. Gault & S. Berk Shop Smart, save More v. 88 I use my handy-dandy reclosable bags to divide and repackage meat into smaller portions for freezing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adv.int.c1390adj.1907
随便看	to money out to moor a proviso to moor anchor to mop and mow to mop or wipe the floor with to mop the floor with to mop up the floor with to mope and mowl to mose in the chine to motormouth one's way to mould cockelty bread to mount a loom to mount a pitch to mount guard to mount on a dead horse to mount one's pitch to mount the guard to mount the high horse to mount the pitch to mount the trenches to mount the white feather to mount to a pitch to mount to etc pitch to mount to one's pitch to mount to the pitch

handy-dandyn.adv.int.

handy-dandyadj.